CHARADRIIFORMES: Burhinidae

Esacus magnirostris  

Vik Dunis: Beach Stone-curlew
© Vik Dunis 2010
Garig Gunak Barlu National Park, NT (Aug, 2010)

Being at the very tip of the Coburg Peninsula, this would have been the most northerly Beach Stone-curlew on the mainland in the Northern Territory. In Australia, only the tip of Cape York is further north.

Larry: Beach Stone-curlew

Beach Stone-curlew catching a crab

Larry: Beach Stone-curlew

Beach Stone-curlew

Larry: Beach Stone-curlew

Beach Stone-curlew

Larry: Beach Stone-curlew

Beach Stone-curlew

Larry: Beach Stone-curlew

Beach Stone-curlew

Vik: Beach Stone-curlew

Beach Stone-curlew

Vik: Beach Stone-curlew

Beach Stone-curlew

Vik: Beach Stone-curlew

Beach Stone-curlew

Geoff: Beach Stone-curlew

Beach Stone-curlew

Geoff: Beach Stone-curlew

Ostrich imitation.

Geoff: Beach Stone-curlew

Gotcha

Geoff: Beach Stone-curlew

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